I was always offended at the fact that the staff and therapists seemed to overemphasize the thinking error crap. if a resident was expressing a valid point, everything was always used against them as thinking error usage. For example: Therapist - "Jake, how do you feel today"? Redident -"Well, I am very sad because my brother died". Therapist - "Jake, I know you recently experienced a loss, but I will not tolerate you using a POOR ME thinking error to manipulae me". This shit happened all the time and i hated the punitive and degrading use of thinking error to blame the kid. I also found the use of Seclusion very unsettling. A kid on the unit i was on (Gateway) was often locked in seclusion for trival things like cursing, or taking too long a shower. The behavior Shapping Program point cards were stupid. So were freezes, AP's, GI's, and HRSA, LRSA, MER, EW structures.